A Note on the Prime Minister's Lecture

The address was elegant and, with one or two exceptions, a comprehensive presentation of his thesis that Britain should: exercise power beyond its borders to promote its values as well as its interests, and that it should continue to use the military instrument in its full combat role as well as in...

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Published in:RUSI Journal 2007-02, Vol.152 (1), p.17-19
Main Author: Codner, Michael
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Foreign policy
International relations-UK
National security
Peace
Prime ministers
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Summary:The address was elegant and, with one or two exceptions, a comprehensive presentation of his thesis that Britain should: exercise power beyond its borders to promote its values as well as its interests, and that it should continue to use the military instrument in its full combat role as well as in constabulary and benign ways alongside the other instruments of national power, the diplomatic and economic. On this, the Prime Minister is surely right: now is the time for just such a debate, not so much because of the new security environment that he describes but because the problematic intervention in Iraq, in particular, undermined public confidence in the nation's military strategy, with possible consequences which could be as catalytic as Suez.
ISSN:0307-1847
1744-0378
DOI:10.1080/03071840701240381